Comment on What year is it?

Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Toes@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A universal calendar hasn’t been established yet so it would depend on where you are.

  For example today in 59 BC under the Athenian calendar would be 17 of Thargelion, Ol.180.1

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But that’s a conversation that everyone knows anyways.

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    • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Probably a celebrating Zeusdays

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• perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_BC has some options

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  • ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wasn’t aware that every year had a wikipedia page…but I tried some others and it kinda seems like it does.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can search for any number between 1 and 2024 and your first result will likely be a Wikipedia article on the year

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• mrmule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In Egypt they would say the 8th year of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator

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  • maculata@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No they wouldn’t. They would say something similar BUT IN OLDE WORLDY EGYPTIAN.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      59 BC is actually pretty close to modern coptic I’d bet (though officially it wouldn’t be called coptic until the third century).

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      • maculata@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah but Mrmule was talking at m English, see?

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• runeko@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pretty sure they would respond, “Get away from me, demon! Stop talking in tongues!”

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  • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure the concept of somebody speaking another language from you existed back then.

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    • runeko@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Get away from me, demon! Stop talking in tongues!

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• ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wikipedia says 695 Ab urbe condita.

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In the Roman empire it was also common to identify years by the names of the two consuls, because the consuls served one year terms.

    Consuls continued to be elected through most of the empire period.

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    • GroteStreet@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The system would also work in the UK the past few years.

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• azi@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Shenjue 3 in China

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• gigachad@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They probably woukdn’t even know their own age

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